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Re: Man Page: Confusing wording
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: Man Page: Confusing wording |
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Mon, 2 Apr 2018 09:09:11 -0400 |
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 05:00:51PM +0200, Lars Krueger wrote:
> The line
>
> Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence, followed
> by ; and &, which have equal precedence.
>
> in the man page is rather confusing. I had to refresh my bison and
> check parser.y to understand it. :-) I think, the following would be
> easier to understand.
>
> Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence to each
> other, and higher precedence to both ; and &. The operators ; and &
> have equal precedence to each other.
I disagree that the proposed change is any better than the original.
Perhaps you could say how you were confused by the original sentence,
and what you thought it meant.
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